1: Enslaved Africans w/ Spanish
The number of African slaves that arrived with the Spanish is inconsequential and if escaped and intermarried with the local native populations, their African blood would have been wiped out by the time Africans got to colonies in 1619.
2) Abu Bakr, Mansa Musa’s father
Abu Bakr sent a fleet of ships to find the end of the ocean. One of the ships returned and claimed that all the other ships perished in a large whirlpool.
Abu Bakr set sail again with another fleet of 1000 (some say 2000) ships, never to be heard again.
Some people claim those ships made it to America. Archaeologists and Anthropologist all say that there is no evidence that they made it to America. Many afrocentrists point to the Olmec statues as being evidence because of their African features. Most historians don’t buy it.
If, hypothetically, they made it to the Americas, they would’ve landed in Central or South America and not North America. Additionally, with 2000 boats, their numbers would’ve still been small enough that they would have intermarried and have been subsumed into the local native populations.
In either of these cases, it does not make black people indigenous to America anymore than Europeans.
What I suspect is the real cause for this “black people are indigenous” claim is the fact that, once Africans got here in 1619, Native American tribes dabbled in the slave trade as well and took African slaves.
The slaves themselves were then recognized as part of those tribes. So when the emancipation proclamation came about and slaves were freed, you had some black people that were identified as “Seminole” or “Cherokee” when the reality was that they were either slaves or descendants of slaves held by those tribal nations. Many of them actually intermarried with the natives and were part native themselves. However, they were still descendant of slaves held by those nations.
You also had situations where runaway slaves or free blacks intermarried with natives and that created mixed offspring. However, in none of these cases, it’s not the black side that makes them indigenous, it’s the native side.
Black people came from Africa. None of us are indigenous to North, Central, South America. In all cases, an African had to cross the Atlantic to get here.
BTW, do a DNA test. All black people have a story about an “Indian” being in the family. In most cases, DNA is finding out that that isn’t true. That “Indian” was most likely a product of white/black rape and the “Indian” was a way to cover up the shocking truth.
